Mike Durant

I mean, we were flying missions every day and every night, and it's a little thing, I guess, but, you know, when you're flying 10 freaking helicopters, rooftop, every day, every night, initially, you know, they're waving at us.

Later on, they're throwing rocks at us, flipping us off.

You know, I mean, you could just tell.

There was just a change in how they viewed us over just the time period that we were there.

But the ultimate catalyst for...

Things changing on our end is, Habergator blows up a Humvee.

Four U.S.

soldiers, I think it's August 8th is when that happens.

They're all killed.

So now, you got the 10th Mountain attack, you got a direct attack against U.S.

military forces, all killed.

They're changing their tactics, they're becoming more hostile.

We need a different plan.

So we reassemble at Bragg, and now we're going to go with the full meal deal.

We're going to go with company ranges from 3rd to the 75th.

We're going to go with two teams of attack helicopters.

We're going to go with almost a full deployment package so that we got everything we need

to take this on.

Well, we were sort of back and forth to brag, back and forth.

Actually, when I finally got the deployment order, we were in Texas.